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Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
What the 
Com Planter 
Does Is 
Final 
A N inaccurate planter covers up its mistakes. You don’t see them 
when they are made. They are not visible until the plants come 
up and hills with too few or too many stalks show you where the 
planter failed to drop properly. Then it is too late to remedy the mis¬ 
takes. You cultivate the crop, harvest it—and get a smaller profit 
than you should, all because of an inaccurate planter. Buy the 
planter that assures accuracy. 
999 CORN PLANTER 
pays for itself in a short time through the profits it makes by planting 
in every hill exactly the desired number of kernels. Farmers in 
all corn-growing sections rely on it for the proper stands that bring 
the extra bushels. 
The “Counting Out” Method of the 
999 gives you the same accuracy that 
you would get if you painstakingly 
counted out the kernels and dropped 
them by hand. 
And the Variable Drop Device en¬ 
ables you to vary the drop to accord 
•with the varying fertility of the field. 
Without stopping the team or leaving 
the seat, you can change the drop to two, 
three or four kernels—always the exact 
number desired. Merely shift a foot 
lever to make the change. 
You can use the 999 for either hilling 
or drilling. Change made instantly by 
means of foot lever. Nine different 
drilling distances can be secured with¬ 
out changing plates. 
You can use the 999 for planting any 
kind of corn, and a great variety of 
other seeds, without changing cut-off. 
Fertilizer and Pea Attachment* can 
be furnished—either or both can be 
used when planting corn. 
Write Today for your 
free copy of “More and 
Better Corn”—a popu¬ 
lar book that is full of 
practical information on 
every feature of quan¬ 
tity and quality com 
production. Address 
John Deere, Moline 
Ask for package P-440. 
JOHN 
MOLINE. ILL 
DEERE 
THE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY MADE FAMOUS BY GOOD IMPLEMENTS 
Pedigreed S. C. R. I. Red 
Males from record hens head our pens. Hatching eggs, $2 
up. Cockerels, THE "ISLAND ROAD REDS’FARM. Ramsey. N J. 
P ure Bred Barred Plymouth Hock. Setting Eggs, $2 per sett" 
iug. AUTIIl'lt BLACK. P. 0. Lake View, .V \ . Residence Derby 
S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks 
breeders. Prices for chicks ready for delivery April 
25—$11; May 17—S15. SAMUEL NIECE A SON, Stockton, N.4. 
Dark BRAHMA EGGS 
for Hatching. $3 for 10. From Pure Bred Stock. 
WILL J. GOODHUE, Route 3, Rockford, III. 
Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
rison has been advanced to $2.75. at 
which price we can supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Hickory Grove Leghorns emS* 
PERFORMANCE NOT PROMISES, OUR MOTTO 
Sales from eggs alone during 1919 amounted to $f> per 
bird. Vigorous birds, farm bred, on free range, free from 
disease, of extra large size and heavy laying ability. Only 
late inoulters kept tor breeders. Matings cockerels with 
hens. Satisfaction Guaranteed. References: Prof. W. G. 
Krmn of Cornell-Rushville State Bank. HATCHING EI!G8. 
$10 PER HUNDRED. Orders for less than 250, 12c. each, 
HICKORY GROVE FARM. - Rushville, New York 
Rarrnn’e "'bite Wyandotte, Cockerels, Bullets. Eggs 
DdllUn o for hatching from stock imported direct with 
records. - E. E. Lewis, Apalachin, New York 
English Leghorns—Pedigreed 
High record birds. Am leading all Leghorns at North 
American contest today. Yi. C. KENT/. It. a, DulloU. Pa. 
llfliite Leghorn F,gg»* froin trapneated stock, $Ha hund- 
” red Up. Folder. WILLIAM L. GILBERT HOME. Winsted, Conn. 
from imported Barron strain Leghorns 
Hatching Eggs w E. ATKINSON, Wallingford, Ct. 
1 iglit llratinifiK. Hatching eggs, $2—15. $3.50—30; $10 
L —100. Anna B. Corwin, R. No. 3, Newburgh, N. Y. 
For Sale Domesticated Mallard and Black Ducks 
Jack Thompson, Route 1, May* Landing, N. J, 
Pnrnpll S. C. W. Leghorns. Muted to 
UU1 lie 11 pedigreed males. Chicks ami eggs for sale. 
F. E. UPSON . Dundee, New York 
Dote Comb Brown Foghorn K g g *. $*<£ per 15. 
n Brush <fc Son - - Milton, Vermont 
p r If , I • White and Barred Rocks from 
tggs for Hatching JSKJWt 
BabyChicks, Hatching Eggs Vi t i , !! t ck F whitc n «nd t Buff 
Leghorns. Reasonable. Roy At. Farm, Bkrciey, Ba. 
S. C. Rhode Island REDS 
Vibert’s 231 to 289 egg strain. Eggs. *12 per 100. Baby 
clucks, 9*5 per loo. Cockerels, *10. ANNA M JONES, Criryville, N Y 
Qiluor flomnlnoo FiJh's from handsome, hardy birds. 
Oliver oampines f01 . 15 . stock tor sale. 
The MacPhkrson Farm Millington, N. J. 
Ton louse Geese. Eggs from large, old birds. 30o each 
I The MacPkerson Farm - Millington, N. J. 
Missouri Contest Winning 
Barron Strain S. C. White Leghorn 
Extra large white hatching eggs at reasonable 
price*. High Quality cockerels for sale, reasonably 
priced. NKI.SON DEWEY, Middleport, N. Y. 
HO 
Pearl Guinea Fowls, 
L. O. OH l<iLEY 
A scientific 
chick-feed 
A good chick feed should have protein 
to build bone and muscle. Little chicks 
crave it and need it for fast and healthy 
development. 
H-0 Steam-Cooked Chick Feed con¬ 
tains 12% protein—and con. s to you 
with a guaranteed analysis on every bag. 
STEAM-COOKED 
CHICK FEED 
Write for free sample, prices 
and descriptive folder. 
THE H-0 COMPANY, Feed Dept., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Members U. S. Food Administration, 
Incense No. 0-12906, United States 
Wheat Director License No. 001158 E. M. 
Albany, N. Y., Office, I Hartford, Ct., Office, 
48 State St., | P. 0. Drawer 14 
D. J. Hyland, Mgr. I John J. Campbell, Mgr. 
Vihert’s strain Rose and Single Comb Reds and 
Parks'strain Barred Rocks. S2.50 tier 15: S10 per too. 
D. Everett Jones. Hillsdale, N. Y. 
Barron’s White Wyandottes f„T® 8 inJ“in»"o ^ 
Barron strain imported by iiiysclt. Records, 202 to 2X3. 
Prices reasonable. K. K. Lewis, Afalachin, New 5 omc 
Mature, vigorous breeders, 
pair $5, trio $7. 
GOSHEN, N. Y. 
S O Anoonoo cockerels and eggs for sale, Sisters 
. u. flllliUndS wjn 4 ribbons at Morrisville laying 
contest in Pee. and ,lan Also Buckeye, Columbian 
Rock. Buff Wyandot te, Silver Spangled Hamburg, White 
Polish and Houdon cockerels. E. P SMELMIOINE, Lorraine, H I. 
CuA.Ini, Brown Leghorns. World's Record layers Amer- 
tveriay jrnn Egg Laying Contest. Leading New York 
Winners. Eggs, (thicks reasonable, limirautee safe deliv¬ 
ery. Circular. Everlay Farm. Bo« IB. Portland. Indiana 
March XT, 1020 
Shutting Off the Rooster’s Crow 
During the past season at least 20 
people have asked us, in all seriousness, 
what they can do to stop a rooster from 
crowing. To the ordinary poultryman, 
who keeps hundreds of birds, this would 
seem like a ridiculous question, but it is 
an important matter to thousands of peo¬ 
ple who live in town. They want to 
keep poultry either in the backyard or 
even in the house, and many of them are 
really doing it. Town people, however, 
do not usually rise with the lark, unless 
it might happen to be some sick lark 
that could not get up and attend to busi¬ 
ness at the regular time, and the roosters 
kept in town have an unfortunate hahit 
of greeting the sunrise even before the 
sun appears. If they could do this as 
silently as some of the sun worshipers in 
the East, no complaint could he made, 
but the rooster’s idea of sun worship is 
to flap his wings, throw back his head, 
open his month, and let out a scream that 
can he heard for a mile. Naturally these 
people who try to keep poultry iu a back¬ 
yard. or in a shed, get themselves into 
trouble with their neighbors, and there 
are a number of cases on record where 
people have been sued at law and com¬ 
pelled to pay damages for keeping one 
of these iron-throated roosters where 
he could let himself out. Some of our 
people tell us that they have no trouble 
with the hens, as they rarely turn them- • 
selves loose at song until they have 
laid an egg, and they do not perform that 
pleasant operation until the neighbors 
are out of bed. So. as is usually the 
ease, little fault is found with the ladies 
who wear feathers, but the gentleman is 
not wanted. Some of our correspondents 
have heard that it is possible to perform 
some sort of an operation on the rooster 
so as to shut off his noise, and they want 
to know how t<» do it. Now it is the 
business of The It. N.-Y. to obtain in¬ 
formation for its readers. We try to 
tell them how to make a noise iu the • 
world, if need be, or how to shut the 
noise off if that is desired, so we went out 
after information with 'regard to the 
rooster’s song. There is said to be a 
physician in Washington who was able 
to cut the vocal cords of his rooster so 
that all that bird could do was to flap 
his wings and open liis month ; but even 
the Department of Agriculture at Wash¬ 
ington has been unable to locate that 
remarkable physician. We have applied 
to practically all of the expert poultry- 
(‘men, and while they all recognize the im¬ 
portance of the subject, they confess that 
the rooster’s crow is too big for them. 
Finally, Professor Kirkpatrick of the 
Connecticut Agricultural College, turned 
this question over to a class of eight 
students ,and asked them to suggest ways 
and means of accomplishing this desired 
performance, and here is the report: 
The following are some of the sugges¬ 
tions that were made: “Tie their wings 
together every night and untie them in,the 
morning. A rooster cannot crow without 
flapping his winds.” Another said to 
cover up the birds’ heads with a cap so 
the birds could not see, putting on the 
cap before going to bed and removing it 
in the morning. And a third suggested 
that a metal ferrule be fitted over the 
beak, putting it on at night and removing 
it in the morning. This would certainly ' 
work all right, as the bird can’t crow if 
his month is kept closed. 
I don’t know of any operation that can 
he performed which will turn the trick. 
There is. however, a remedy simpler than 
any my students gave, and which. I hap¬ 
pen to know was actually practiced by a 
former member of the faculty at Storrs. 
It appears that this man’s wife could not 
sleep well, especially if roosters crowed, 
and so he regularly, every night, went 
into the henhouse and put the rooster into 
a box low enough so he could not stand up 
straight, and claimed thus to have entirely 
overcome the early morning crowing. I 
have not. personally tried this plan, but 
one of my co-workers assured me that it 
is successful. 
These suggestions are well worth try¬ 
ing, especially the one of compelling the 
poor rooster to imitate a sitting hen in 
his attitude for the night. That prob¬ 
ably humiliates him so that he doesn’t 
care to assert, his real character until he 
can stand up straight and proclaim his 
superiority to # the world. We think it 
most likely that the wife suggested this 
remedy to her husband, but at any rate 
he is a faithful man to carry out the 
plan and thus silence the rooster. The 
rooster cannot crow while sitting, but we 
know of men who can sit by the hour 
and boast of their achievements. 
